Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus

Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Alicyclobacillaceae
Genus: Alicyclobacillus
Species:
A. cellulosilyticus
Binomial name
Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus
Kusube et al. 2014

Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus is a species of acidophilic, thermophilic, strictly aerobic, bacterium. The bacteria Gram stains negative and produce endospores. It was first "isolated from steamed Japanese cedar chips from a lumber mill in Gobō, Wakayama Japan." The species was first described in 2014, and the name refers to the species' ability to digest cellulose.[1]

The optimum growth temperature for A. cellulosilyticus is 55 °C, and can grow in the 40–67.5 °C range. The optimum pH is 4.8, and can grow in pH 3.5-6.5.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Kusube, M; Sugihara, A; Moriwaki, Y; Ueoka, T; Shimane, Y; Minegishi, H (2014). "Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus sp. nov., a thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium isolated from steamed Japanese cedar chips from a lumbermill". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Pt 7): 2257–2263. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.061440-0. PMC 4080748. PMID 24711593.
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